The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-27
CITY MATTERS IN GENERAL.
In Brief.

George Stayman and Katie Flagherty were IL
censed to marry yesterday.
The German gardeners around the city have
formed An aid society. and filed their articles OF
incorporation with the county recorder yester-
day.
Israel l.. Grose, who has been confined in Jail
for several weeks for an alleged forgery was re-
leased on his own recognizance by Judge Irwin
yesterday.
DR.. Rufus Clifton Wells and Mrs. Sarah F.
Wells, his wife, will give illustrated lecture
on their travels around the world, at Plymouth
church, on Tuesday evening at o'clock.
Thomas Graves, who was shot by Thomas
Lewis at the Grand Hotel last Tuesday. is still
in critical condition, and for that reason the
preliminary trial of Lewis has been postponed
until Tuesday. Lewis was released on a $500
bond last evening.
MASS MEETING ON TUESDAY EVENING.
The time of the mass meeting at Tomlinson
Hall, to be addressed by Governor Robertson,
Speaker Sayre Representative Davis and others,
is changed from Monday to Tuesday night, the
LIST OF March, at 7:30 o'clock. The doors open at
o'clock.
FREE FROM CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
The city has never before been so clear Of con-
taeious diseases There is now but one case in
the city, and that is diphthera. During the
last month there have been but eight cases of
the disease reported. The birth list for last
week numbered thirty five, and the death list
thirty seven
SMALL FIRE IN A STORE.
The rubbish piled in the cellar ofethe Phila
delphia shoe store, No IS East Washington
street, caugh fire from spontaneous combustion.
last evening, but the blaze was extinguished be-
fore any damage was done. When the alarm
came In the electrical machinery at Headquarters
broke, and caused much trouble
THE LIQUOR LEAGUES BROKEN PROMISE.
While Travis was superintendent, John c..
Nickel, of No 135 East Washington street, at
tempted 70 violate the law by running club
house on Sunday. He was arrested and heavily
fined. He now complains to the Mayor that the
Liquor League encouraged him to defy the law,
and promised to help bear his expenses in case
the law entrapped him. They have now refused
to help bin pay his costs, and he wants to COM
pell them to make good their promise
CHANCE FOR COOKS.
At the prize corn show to be held in this CITY
March IL and II, premiums will be awarded for
prepared foods from corn as follows. the recipes
OF each to accom- pany each entry Best corn
bread; best spoon corn-bread: best corn bread
buns best sweet corn meal cake: best corn NUT
fns best hoe-cake: best Johnny" cake; best rye
and Indian cake best Indian pound cake; best
hominy, leached: best hominy. unleached best
best cereallne; best glucose
CoMMENDATIoN OF COLONEL ROBERTSON
The following telegram from G. E. Bursley,
president of the Morton Club at Fort Wayne,
was received last night by Lieutenan.- governor
Robertson: 'One hundred members of the
Morton Club, now assembl ed, send you
greetings, and wish to express to you
their hearty appreciation of and warmest ad-
hay ak
and the patriotic and statesmanlike course you
have pursued, and we pledge you our hearty
support. Convey to Speaker Sayre our earnest
desire that there be no compromise until you
are In the Presidents chair of the Senate"
ASSAULTED BY DRUNKEN HAcK-DRIvERs
The lncessant rain and the military ball made
business brisk for the hack-drivers Friday night.
Two of them. James Jones and j. R. Graham,
couldn't stand prosperity, and got drunk at
o'clock. An hour later they were on West Mich
igan street and saw j. R. Graham, Journal car
rier, stufing copy of the morning paper through
the wlndow-shutters. They demanded an ex-
PLANTATION of him, and because he did not choose
to explain caught him and gave him terrible
beating. For this they were arrested and each
fined $40 and scosts and $40 and costs additional
for visiting a house of ill-repute. Jones was
nned 80 for carrying razor
NEGRO BOYS PILFERING.
For several weeks DR.. Barker, the eye and ear
specialist, has been missing small sums of money
from his Office in all about 800 in money and
twelve pairs of gold spectacles have disappeared
His observation led him to suspect a colored
boy by the name of Abraham Goodall. who
loafed about the office. Last evening the boy
was arrested, and he confessed to having taken
90 cents at one time aud So and $40 at other times
The last two amounts, he says. he shared with
another colored boy, who has not yet been ar
rested. He claims that he did the stealing be-
cause he was told by DR.. Barker that whenever
he found money he should keep it.
TOOK TOO MANY PILLS.
Two weeks ago W. c. Kring, of Atlanta. Ham
ilton county, met a travelling physician On train
out of this city, who said he could cure rheu-
matism Mr.. Kring agreed to take some of his
medicine, and was given a box of pills with in
structions to take four every hour
Instead, he took eight per hour
the day after he arrived at home and was al
most crazy from suffering on account of the
mistake While In half demented condition
ne left home. and has not yet been found
Oscar Rhodes. of Atlanta, was in the CITY yes
terday hunting him. and has heard of him about
several saloons in the neighborhood of the depot
He has wife and family.
MEDICAL COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.
The seventeenth annual commencement of the
Medical College of Indiana will be held at Dick
sons Opera-house on next Wednesday evening.
After comforting the degrees there will be an ad-
dress by DR.. G. E. Wright. the dean of the
faculty. Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley will read
poem, and Mr.. Louis Rowland will deliver an
address on 1.-THE Physician and the State" The
Mears gold medal prize will be presented by
Dr. I. =. Harvey. The music for the occasion
will be furnished by Zumpfes juvenile orches-
ira, the Lyra quartet and Miller's orchestra
The meeting of the college alumni association
will be held in the lecture hall, on the same dav
at 10 o'clock.
RATHER HAVE SAND THAN WIND.
A special telegram to the Journal from Wash
ington says: "Thls evenings Star has column